The Huffington Post reports the study used the Big Five personality traits used in psychology (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism) to make links with the Facebook likes and interpret the findings.

It's all very Big Brother, no? Though given that Facebook had 1.39 billion monthly active users at the end of 2014 it's no wonder it can second guess our every move.

Still, the fact that a computer can judge our personality traits better than our nearest and dearest is mortifying.